Crime & Safety

Coast Guard Rescues Man With Leg Injury off Cape May Coast

The man was injured Sunday afternoon.

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The Coast Guard assisted a man who suffered a leg injury while boating about eight miles off the coast of Cape May on Sunday.

The 48-year-old man suffered his injury while on board the 62-foot boat It's All Good around 4 p.m., the Coast Guard said Sunday evening.

A Coast Guard Station Cape May boat crew aboard a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium responded, and escorted the man’s boat to Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, where EMS personnel were standing by to provide further medical care.

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